Comment on Phone-hijacking malware sat on Google Play store for weeks, was downloaded over 100,000 times

Google's Android smartphone operating system may be a lot more flexible than Apple's, but there's a downside to that flexibility: Malware. Hackers have shown an affinity to the Android platform, trying to trick unsuspecting phone owners into downloading software to hijack their device. A few months ago, a fake Angry Birds Space game that delivered a malware payload found its way to the Google Play store.

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US film and TV studio The Weinstein Company has filed for bankruptcy.
The company, cofounded by Harvey Weinstein who dozens of women have accused of varying degree of sexual misconduct, says it has a stalking horse bid for its assets from the private equity firm Lantern Capital.
The filing comes on the same day that New York Gov.

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The Chinese city of Guiyang said its facial-recognition software allows police to identify and arrest suspects in as little as two minutes.
Cameras are placed in more than 10,000 public areas and send surveillance feeds to police in real-time, identifying individuals, their family members and where they've been in the last week.
A BBC reporter tested the system in December and was identified and captured within seven minutes.
China has hit back at concerns over privacy, saying that there are no problems because the data is collected in "public places."
An expansive facial recognition network in the southwestern Chinese city of Guiyang have reportedly enabled police to detect and apprehend criminals in as little as two minutes.
The surveillance cameras are set up in more than 10,000 public places across the city, which is larger than the state of Delaware, reported the state-run newspaper Global Times this week.

A self-driving car from Uber Technologies Inc. struck a woman who died Monday in Tempe, Ariz., local police say, in what is believed to be the first known fatality of a pedestrian from a driverless vehicle.